widow

noun/ˈwɪdoʊ/

Frequency rank: #3,822 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)

Meaning

a woman whose husband has died and who has not remarried.

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Example sentence

After her husband passed away, she became a young widow and raised her three children alone.

Synonyms & related words

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